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Validity of the National Independent Living Skills Screening Instrument.
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Sands, Deanna J. – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
This study, involving 118 adolescents and adults with deafness, found a high level of concurrent criterion validity for the National Independent Living Skills (NILS) Screening Instrument. The study concluded that the NILS is a valid tool for assessing independent living skills of persons age 16 and older with a hearing impairment and possible…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Concurrent Validity, Daily Living Skills
Behavioral Assessment of Community Living Skills: Considerations for Practitioners.
Yu, Dickie; Feldman, Maurice – 1991
This book chapter outlines a number of key characteristics crucial to the integrity, utility, and efficiency of a behavioral assessment instrument for community living skills of people with developmental disabilities. In addition to basic psychometric considerations, the paper suggests that the functions of a behavioral assessment instrument could…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Rating Scales, Daily Living Skills, Developmental Disabilities
Impact of Community-Based Instruction on the Development of Adaptive Behavior of Secondary-Level Students with Mental Retardation.
McDonnell, John; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1993
This study of community-based instruction with 34 high school students with moderate to profound mental retardation found (1) students made significant gains in 3 of 4 independent behavior domains; and (2) amount of community-based instruction was a more powerful predictor of gains than were intelligence quotient, level of student ambulation, or…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Community Based Instruction (Disabilities)
Teaching Children with Autism to Use Photographic Activity Schedules: Maintenance and Generalization of Complex Response Chains.
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MacDuff, Gregory S.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1993
A graduated guidance procedure was used to teach 4 boys (ages 9-14) with autism to follow photographic activity schedules to increase on-task and on-schedule behavior. Use of the schedules produced sustained engagement which generalized to a new schedule with a new sequence of photographs. Subjects were able to independently change activities in…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Daily Living Skills, Generalization
Assessing the Transition Skills of Adolescents and Young Adults Who Are Deaf through Video Technology.
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Teaching Research, 1992
This newsletter issue describes a programmatic line of research to develop and standardize a test battery of transition skills (employment and independent living skills) for adolescents and young adults (ages 14 to 25) who are deaf. The newsletter first discusses the importance of assessment data to the transition process for persons who are deaf.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Deafness, Diagnostic Tests
Handbook of Special Education
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Kauffman, James M., Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States--by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Design